“Falling, falling, falling now… Waterfall music.”
-Matsuo Basho
Falling, Falling…
Tag Archives: Waterfall
Spring Sampler – A Gallery of Photos
“Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment.” -Ellis Peters
“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of Spring?” – Neltje Blanchan
“Come with me into the woods where Spring is advancing, as it does, not matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts and certainly visible.” – Mary Oliver
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Yellowstone – A Gallery of Photos
Yellowstone. Majestic earth workings of every sort. Power. Everlasting change and evolution. Steaming water, geysers, grand waterfalls, canyons, a deep and wide lake, fumaroles, mud pots, elk, bighorn sheep, grizzlies, black bear, cats, moose, and wolves!! Nine packs of wolves vying for dominance and survival, taking care of their families, broadening their empires. What a vision of nature’s overwhelming diversity and drive for balance. Life continuing in all its exuberance. There is never enough time to take it all in. I want to return and spend weeks in the Lamar Valley, getting to know the wolves and the landscapes. To become part of it, to know it. Undiminished by the island it has become, it is still becoming. So alive, so magnificent. Mysterious and overwhelmingly powerful.
“A thousand Yellowstone wonders are calling, ‘Look up and down and round about you.”
-John Muir, 1898
“There is nothing so American as our national parks…. The fundamental idea behind the parks…is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.”
– President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Yosemite National Park – A Gallery of Photos
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“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”
-Ansel Adams
“Down through the middle of the Valley flows the crystal Merced, River of Mercy, peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the onlooking rocks; things frail and fleeting and types of endurance meeting here and blending in countless forms, as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures, to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her.”
-John Muir
Many A Calm River
“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”
-Mikhail Lermontov
Running Eagle
“I care not what people say of me so long as I do right. I shall never be any man’s slave.”
-Pitamakan (Running Eagle)
Running Eagle was a Piegan Blackfoot woman warrior. The waterfall on this post was named in her honor as she holds a prestigious place in Blackfoot lore. Brave, smart, beautiful, kind, master horsewoman and bow and arrow shot, she was a leader, ahead of her time as a renaissance woman.
Given the name Brown Weasel Woman, by the time she was fifteen she was hunting buffalo with the men. While hunting, her Blackfeet were attached by the Flathead, and when her father went down, she went back for him, defended her position, took out a few of the attackers, and got her father home. She had become Running Eagle and a Warrior.
Not wanting to effect her warrior status she never married instead taking a widow into her home to take care of household duties. This freed her to continue the life she had chosen. According to the Blackfoot stories she led dozens of raids against rival tribes including the Crow and Flathead.
As her status as Warrior and leader expanded she was allowed to do a vision quest (only men did vision quests at this time).
The falls were named after her as she did her vision quest at the top of them. Energy around the falls is quite strong and magical.
There is medicine there.
